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BoConcept Milos Line

11 March 2010, 15.31 | Posted in Furniture | No comments »

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For Spring, BoConcept brings color and customization with a new line of sofas and table. The Milos Line allows for creation of an ideal seating arrangement via appropriate reconstruction of 13 different seating units. Once that process is complete, there are over 80 fabrics to choose from for the final touches. In addition to the sofa, the BoConcept Spring collection includes an expendable dining table – again customizable and with hints of vibrant color.

More images of the Milos Line and that table follow.

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Roy McMakin: When a Chair is Not a Chair

10 March 2010, 23.59 | Posted in Architecture, Art, Books & Magazines, Craft, Design, Furniture | No comments »

Roy McMakin Roy McMakin: When a Chair is Not a Chair

Coming in April from Rizzoli, Roy McMakin: When a Chair is Not a Chair details the multi-faceted career of Roy McMakin. At once an architect and a furniture designer, this monograph proves McMakin above all an artist. The photographs alone reveal an unparalleled talent in turning the mundane into items of absolute glory. Chests of drawers, these being my personal favorites, are close to perfected in McMakin’s hands.

Smartly composed essays balance the photographic spreads. These range from personal reflections (in the case of Lisa Eisner’s “Love Letter to Roy McMakin”) to analytic work that contextualizes McMakin’s place in design and his work in architecture. Eisner, a photographer and founder of Greybull Press, is joined as an essayist by Seatle Art Museum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Michael Darling and Conceptual Artist John Baldessari, and writer Michael Ned Holte. The quartet’s variety of scope and thought succeeds in articulating McMakin’s own breadth quite well, and each essay is as engrossing as the designs that surround them.

Highly recommended reading.

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Video | Toyo Ito & Associates Architects / Tama Art University Library

10 March 2010, 22.00 | Posted in Architecture | No comments »
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Chris Bourke Lino Prints

10 March 2010, 20.40 | Posted in Art | No comments »

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Chris Bourke owns a skate shop (Spine) in Worcester, England. He trained as a tattooists and the themes and style of that ageless art play into his current artistic passion.

Since 2005, Bourke has worked primarily in Lino Print. This work has a dark edge, but a good sense of humor. Notes of faith, love, and sticking it to the man prevail.  For this Bourke has been recognized in several international galleries and published in Art by Tattooists: Beyond Flash (2009).

Further examples of the Lino Prints follow.

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Video | Highsnobiety TV: Henrik Vibskov Interview

10 March 2010, 18.34 | Posted in Art | No comments »
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Locust Farm Windsors

10 March 2010, 16.16 | Posted in Art, Craft, Design | No comments »

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Born from the passions of Mr. William Jenkins, Locust Farms Windsors in Montross, VA, produces a magnificent array of hand crafted Windsor chairs. Jenkins, a former Air Force pilot, is a designated “Virginia Professional Artisan.” What impresses most is Jenkins’ passion for the breadth and variety of the Windsor form. While many craftsmen stop at a single style, Jenkins goes all out. He offers settees, he offers Nantucket style fan backs. He even, much to my delight, offers left handed writing desks.

Simple, timeless seating furniture.

A lovely collection of Locust Farm Windsors after the jump.

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Refined Edge Design, Ottawa

10 March 2010, 14.48 | Posted in Craft, Design | No comments »

Bowtie 540 Refined Edge Design, Ottawa

Founded by Norman Pirrolo, Refined Edge Design essentially acts as a one man show. Pirrolo worked in IT before deciding to fully dedicate himself to the arts. His sculptural, 0ne-off pieces combine a contemporary approach to furniture with traditional methods of joinery. More recent production, like the Bow Tie table above, incorporates mixed media in the furniture – in this case metal and wood. Pirrolo’s tables are his masterpieces, bold works that are incredibly successful in their interplay with light.

Learn more at Refined Edge Design.

Several examples of Pirrolo’s furniture after the jump.

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Josh Agle “Red Star, Black Eye” at Rotofugi

09 March 2010, 23.40 | Posted in Art | No comments »

redstar blackeye front Josh Agle Red Star, Black Eye at Rotofugi

Chicago’s Rotofugi Gallery has on view Red Star, Black Eye: New Works by Josh Agle (Shag) through March 14, 2010. Shag is a designer, illustrator and painter. His influence range from tattoos to tiki bars, with many other things not beginning with “T” mixed in. The pieces on display are primarily large scale, and while they have a bit of The Jetsons (my take) tossed in, there is also a great degree of contemporary tie to the work.

Rotofugi, 1955 W. Chicago Drive, Chicago, IL.

More views from the exhibition follow.

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Furniture Maker Jim Rose

09 March 2010, 22.15 | Posted in Art, Craft, Furniture | No comments »

jim rose front Furniture Maker Jim Rose

Jim Rose makes familiar pieces from unfamiliar material – metal.

He specializes in steel art furniture, which follows the Shaker tradition in aesthetics. Rose’s reuse of refuse provides familiar new life to old things, while charting a new course that creates some startling realizations. What exactly is that? Simple enough question, but one I find myself asking regularly when viewing Rose’s furniture. It’s great fun.

More examples follow.

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Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955

09 March 2010, 20.54 | Posted in Art | No comments »

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A pointed complement to Robert Frank’s The Americans, which closed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in early January, the recently opened Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955, situates the photographers eye and work in a single locale.

Frank traveled the nation in 1955 compiling what would eventually become The Americans. He spent considerable time in Detroit, documenting factories, lunch-counters, and sports stadiums. It was a city of much inspiration.

The Detroit Institute of Art celebrates the Motor City’s place in Robert Frank’s view of America through this special exhibition. Over 60 images are included, many that have never been seen before. Certainly worth trying to catch if The Americans was to your fancy.

ABOVE: Robert Frank, American (born Switzerland), born 1924 Drive-In Movie, Detroit, 1955 ,
Gelatin silver print Image: 8¼ x 12½ in. (21.0 x 31.8 cm), Founders Society Purchase, Tina and Lee Hills Graphic Arts Fund
DIA No. F78.63. © Robert Frank, from The Americans